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lance when they celebrated their newly gained freedom to eat and drink
as they pleased (Chapter 3.14).
Zawya
Brass armlets worn on upper arm by the gabajuwala dressed as keen
young men who want to start dzum zugune; see photo illustration in
Plate 50a for more details (Chapter 3.14).
Zbe
Matrilateral exogamy; a son could not intermarry with the daughter of
his mother's father's lineage for up to four generations in the past but
this was already reduced to two generations during my time; see also
the concept kuÉ—ige (kitchen) representing full-brothers descending
from various wives of a husband and father leading to different levels
of matrilateral exogamy within a polygynous family; the matrilateral
kindred of a extended family was also referred to as zbe (Chapter 3.6).
Zinga-zinge
F-shaped throwing knife; see photograph in Plate 59j (Chapter 3.14).
Zuwala
Name for an eighth-born child; see Chapter 3.18 where we explain
how a child named Zuwala was still cast out or fell victim to
infanticide during early colonial times; in the mid-1920s the British
changed the custom to adoption and we attempt to interpret the
tradition as a most likely late pre-colonial form of population control
driven by the unpredictable semi-arid environment of the Gwoza hills.
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